RE: [PHP] Performance question

I think you've got the best set up already. I have a PDF library that I do a similar thing with. To update the site I just dump the new PDF's into their directory and the users reload the page to see the new content. James -----Original Message----- From: Fifield, Mike [mailto:Mike.Fifield@schwab.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 11:22 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Performance question Ok I have a performance question. I run a wallpaper site; this is the url to the main gallery page http://www.cognitivedistortion.com/php/gal.php <http://www.cognitivedistortion.com/php/gal.php> The page does a dir read and lists all pictures found in each directory, it does this every time the page is loaded. Now at first this seemed like a incredible inefficient way to do generate pages. The alternatives to this would be to generate a list of the pictures and save them in a text file, or create a list of the pictures and store them in a database. If I use a text file I will have to read the text file every time the page is generated which seems like it would take just as long as reading the file allocation table, which I am doing now. As for the database to get the same thing done I would first have to log into the database and then pull the information. I was hoping to get some input as to which would be the fastest/ best way to use. Mike Fifield Charles Schwab & Co, Inc. WARNING: All e-mail sent to or from this address will be received by the Charles Schwab corporate e-mail system and is subject to archival and review by someone other than the recipient.